On 3/31/21 3:48 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > On 2021-Mar-31, Mark Dilger wrote: > >> PostgresNode::start() doesn't work for servers older than version 10, >> either. If I hack that function to sleep until the postmaster.pid >> file exists, it works, but that is really ugly and is just to prove to >> myself that it is a timing issue. There were a few commits in the >> version 10 development cycle (cf, commit >> f13ea95f9e473a43ee4e1baeb94daaf83535d37c) which changed how pg_ctl >> works, though I haven't figured out yet exactly what the interaction >> with PostgresNode would be. I'll keep looking. > Do you need to do "pg_ctl -w" perhaps?
Probably. The buildfarm does this unconditionally and has done for a very long time, so maybe we don't need a version test for it. cheers andrew -- Andrew Dunstan EDB: https://www.enterprisedb.com